New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of Utrecht Willelm Jacobus (left) and John Tong, archbishop of Hong Kong, attend the consistory ceremony that will elevate them to cardinal inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012.

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Dolan is called up to the ornate altar to receive his red hat and ring during today’s elevation ceremony. Pope Benedict XVI brought the 22 cardinals up individually; Dolan was 16th.

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Pope Benedict XVI carefully puts a biretta on Dolan’s head and places the ring on his finger during today’s consistory ceremony.

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After Dolan received his cardinal honors, he and the pope leaned in as the two had a few words. “He thanked me, and I said, ‘No, thank you for this,'” Dolan later recounted, pointing to his new robe.

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Dolan walks away from the altar, sporting a big grin.

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Dolan greets his fellow cardinals.

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Wearing the scarlet biretta and red cassock of his new office, Dolan smiles after he was named cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI during today’s ceremony.

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Newly-appointed cardinal Edwin Frederick O’Brien, a Bronx native who is currently head of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, congratulates Dolan outside the basilica.

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Dolan is greeted by a nun, who appears to be kissing his ring, after he was elevated today.

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Dolan is congratulated by two unidentified prelates outside St. Peter’s after the ceremony.

Dolan smiles during a press conference at the American Pontifical College in Rome.

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Dolan places a prayer note in the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.

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Dolan prepares to lead an outdoor holy mass at an archeological site in Emmaus Nicopolis, Israel.

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More mass preparations in Israel

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Dolan looks around the “Hall of Names” at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. The room holds 600 portraits of individual Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust and contains binders documenting more than 4,000,000 of those people.

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Dolan greets well wishers outside the “Today” studio at Rockefeller Center in New York after it was announced that he was chosen to become cardinal.

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Dolan celebrates his first mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral after being named cardinal

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Dolan smiles after Sunday mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

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Dolan outside of St. Patrick’s

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Dolan, speaking to the media about the arrival of a kidnapped child at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, said that he was glad that the church was thought of as a place of safety and was thankful to the NYPD for their efforts.

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Dolan celebrates mass at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral.

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Dolan visits Our Lady of Refuge Church in the Bronx.

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Dolan arrives at The Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Little Italy.

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Dolan grins as he is handed the Holy scepter during the ceremonial Mass where Dolan was installed as spiritual leader of 2.5 million New York Catholics at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.

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Dolan shows off his favorite Yankees jersey at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

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Dolan smiles as he enters St. Patrick’s Cathedral during the Solemn Vespers ceremony. Dolan is the 10th Archbishop of New York.

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Dolan talks with Pope John Paul II during an audience the pope held at the Vatican on June 30, 2003.